What's new on CPAN - May 2017
Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!
N.B. I’ll be speaking at The Perl Conference: DC 2017. My talk What’s New on CPAN - Annual Edition will cover some highlights and curiosities from the past year of CPAN uploads. Come and say hi!
APIs & Apps
- Net::Async::Trello is a low level, minimalist client for Trello
- Get a non blocking interface to Music Player Daemon with AnyEvent::Net::MPD
- VMware::vCloudDirector provides an interface to VMWare vCloud Directory REST API
Config & Devops
- CloudDeploy is a toolkit for building and managing AWS CloudFormation stacks
- A simple distributed cloud friendly cron for the masses using CloudCron
Data
- Generate color data for testing using Data::Faker::Colour
- File::PCAP is a module for reading/writing PCAP files
- Automatically normalize Unicode hash keys with Hash::Normalize
- Net::DNS::Extlang is a DNS extension language
Development & Version Control
- API::CLI is a generic framework for creating REST API command line clients
- Benchmark different parameter validation modules using Benchmark::Featureset::ParamCheck
- Ref::Util::XS is the XS implementation of Ref::Util
- Get a superfast router using Router::XS (disclaimer: I am the module author)
- SQS::Worker is a lightweight framework for async processing of messages from SQS queues
- Get tab completion in the Reply REPL for exported symbol names with Reply::Plugin::Autocomplete::ExportedSymbols
Hardware
- Interact with the Palo Alto firewall API with Device::PaloAlto::Firewall
- Extract GPS data from GPS units using GPSD::Parse
- Access and manipulate Raspberry Pi GPIO pins with RPi::Pin
- Image::Sane let’s you use SANE-compatible scanner devices from Perl
Other
- XS::Tutorial provides documentation for learning Perl XS (disclosure, I am the module author).
Science & Mathematics
- AI::XGBoost is a Perl wrapper for XGBoost, the gradient boosting machine learning framework
- Bio::DB::Big provides a perly interface to BigWig and BigBed files via libBigWig
Web
- Log LWP requests as curl commands using LWP::CurlLog
- Test::HTTP::LocalServer implements a tiny HTTP server for testing
- WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::Selector adds a CSS selector method for WWW::Mechanize
This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.
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